Charactor Limits on Mail Merge from Excel Chuck Keller 6/26/2007 5:23:04 PM Does anyone know what the maximum charactor limits to a field from a mail merge is in Word. I have several fields I am bring into Word from Excel 03 and they exceed 2000 charactors. If so is their a work around to this charactor limit?

Re: Charactor Limits on Mail Merge from Excel "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" <dkr[ at ]REMOVECAPSmvps.org> 6/26/2007 7:51:01 PM From information posted by a fellow contributor, I understand that Word looks at the first 8 or so records in the data source to determine the time of data. If there is no field in any of those 8 or so records that contains more than 255 characters, that field in all subsequent records will be truncated at 255 characters. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Chuck Keller" <Chuck Keller[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:396EBA2B-059C-4F32-81D4-92AF14F3E09A[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Does anyone know what the maximum charactor limits to a field from a mail > merge is in Word. I have several fields I am bring into Word from Excel > 03 > and they exceed 2000 charactors. If so is their a work around to this > charactor limit?